Senior Programmer Analyst (Architect)

Overview

BC Assessment is currently looking for two (2) permanent Senior Programmer Analysts (Architects) to join our ITS Division in our Victoria office.

We acknowledge that BC Assessment’s Victoria office is located on the traditional territories of the Songhees Nation of the Coast Salish People. We are honoured to be able to live, work and play on this land.

Who we are

As a Provincial Crown Corporation, our enduring purpose is to support communities through independent excellence in property assessments. Our people are the key to our success - they drive our business, bring our values to life and help build communities. We value BC and also, truly value our people.

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Who you are

You are a senior-level technical leader who thrives on bringing clarity and structure to complex, enterprise-wide systems. Whether your passion lies in the flow of data or the architecture of the cloud, you are comfortable providing technical guidance across the application lifecycle. You are an analytical thinker who prioritizes system performance, scalability, and reliability, with a proven ability to mentor teams and navigate technical trade-offs in an evolving environment.

You bring a solid engineering mindset with deep experience in backend application development. You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and you’re comfortable learning and applying new languages and frameworks - such as Python, SQL, or other backend technologies - as the work evolves.

Depending on your area of focus, you also bring expertise in one of the following :

Data Engineering Focus - You specialize in data-centric system design, relational databases, and data modeling. You have a track record of building and evolving data-intensive integration pipelines that support enterprise analytics and reporting platforms.

Cloud Solutions Focus - You specialize in cloud-native architectures and infrastructure. You have experience designing and deploying scalable, secure, and resilient services within cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP), with a focus on modernization and platform integration.

What you’ll get to do

As a Senior Programmer Analyst (Architect), you will shape the organization’s enterprise capabilities by providing leadership across the full application lifecycle—planning, designing, and maintaining mission-critical services that span multiple platforms.

Working closely with IT and business partners, you will guide teams through complex architectural decisions, manage technical risks, and ensure solutions are reusable and aligned with long-term corporate standards.

Your impact will be focused in one of two key role-specific areas :

Data Engineering - You will design and build robust data pipelines, database-backed services, and integration components that power our enterprise data platforms. You will collaborate closely with Data Architecture functions to translate high-level patterns into reliable, production-ready data solutions that ensure data integrity and performance at scale.

Cloud Solutions - You will architect and implement cloud-based services and integration frameworks that modernize our application landscape. You will lead the transition toward cloud-native patterns, ensuring our systems are highly available, well-integrated, and optimized for the cloud environment while maintaining alignment with our enterprise security and infrastructure standards.

As a Senior Programmer Analyst (Architect), you will also :

• Lead and oversee the organization’s enterprise application architecture, ensuring applications are designed, developed, integrated, and maintained in alignment with corporate standards and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary teams, guiding the design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of complex enterprise-wide applications.
• Define, develop, document, and implement corporate application development standards, policies, tools, and architectural frameworks.
• Identify architectural issues and risks, lead problem resolution and preventative maintenance, and develop integrated, workable solutions.
• Evaluate emerging application development tools, services, and vendor products, leading cost-benefit analyses and making recommendations to support organizational objectives.
• Provide organization-wide technical expertise and consultative support to managers, staff, contractors, and consultants on application architecture and software engineering practices.
• Lead large-scale initiatives involving changes to the corporate software engineering and application architecture environment, ensuring alignment with long-term technical strategy.
• Define, estimate, schedule, monitor, and control complex technical activities, gaining consensus and commitment to implement the best technical solutions.

These positions are included in the bargaining unit.

Location and compensation

What you bring to the team

Education

Experience

Note : An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Why you’ll love it here

We are proud to be recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers! We offer competitive benefits for our employees :

At BC Assessment, we believe that a strong and healthy culture creates an environment for our people to thrive, and that it delivers value and performance to the people of British Columbia. Our values include :

Our commitment to you

We are committed to ensuring that reasonable accommodations are made available to everyone and not limited to those with any abilities or disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request. If you require assistance or an accommodation, please contact us.

We acknowledge that many people have fluctuating access needs and that submitting job applications can be difficult. If there is anything in this job posting that is confusing or unclear, please let us know. We are happy to provide alternate forms to submit your application or respond to other access needs.

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